I realy like the mp7 over the p90, but I want it in the same cartridge as my future pistol(fn57). I have enough mechinist friends to have a semi auto sbr version made, the problem is finding blue prints. If any of you have any blue prints or know were to get them I would love your help. thanks and tell me what you think of the the idea. :ponder:

As far as i have heard, the MP7 is a full-auto only offering from HK, and will never be available as a semi civilian model. HK has always been very snobby in this area, never offering semi civilian versions of some of its most popular models. And if they do offer one (namely the USC), they turn it into something ridiculous, like a single-stack mag with a stock that looks like they glued together a broken crossbow.

Only when HK faces the fact that they're going to lose money on the MP7, will they dump semi civilain models on the market for the "rest of us". I can guaratee you it won't look like the LEO version if they do, and you'd obviously have to SBR it. But rechambering it to shoot the 5.7x28 reliably, the key word being reliably, would probably be very difficult, and not worth the effort in my opinion.

Oh ps... if you really like the MP7 over the PS90, maybe the place for this thread is over on the HK forum, and not here. :p

well I guess I will have to get my class 7 some day. And as for going over to the HK forum, I don't recall hk making any thing in 5.7 and I'd like to stick to that round. I'll rethink the p90.
But I would still love mp7 blue prints if I could get them.
Also why would I go to HK forums eveyones so nice here and not to mention that I havn't seen any couch potato gun experts on here.

You can SBR the 5.7 pistol with KPOS. Have the barrel threaded for suppressor & get as close as you are going to get for MP7. Warning that would turn your pistol into a 2 stamp gun. All NFA rules would apply.

HK went their "OWN WAY" and made an even smaller cartridge for a sub gun to compete with the PS 90. It is a "standard" format sub gun with none of the innovation of design found in the revolutionary P90/PS90.

The Krauts were too proud to use the P90. "Pride goeth before a fall."

But I like Danesthesia's suggestion for a KPOS conversion of the Five Seven pistol. Oooo! Oooo! Pure sex!

Yeah, H&K fell prey to the mostly American syndrome of "Not Invented Here" (the P90) so they invented their own sub gun that would defeat Level III soft body armor.

And so they did, developing a cartridge that has less kinetic energy downrange than the 5/8x28 and a gun that is good but not as innovative as the P90. And of course got it accepted by NATO for God knows what reason. Like NATO really needs yet another sub gun cartridge in its inventory.

I must admit, the American military has come a long way from its previous small arms ethnocentrism when they purchased both medium and light machine guns from FNH and a handgun from Beretta and updated it with one from SIG, our newest all service sidearm.

You can SBR the 5.7 pistol with KPOS. Have the barrel threaded for suppressor & get as close as you are going to get for MP7. Warning that would turn your pistol into a 2 stamp gun. All NFA rules would apply.